Appelby's World Travel Agents and R Smith is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.

Appelby's World Travel Agents and R Smith

WRENN ID
keen-moat-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Lindsey
Constituency
Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 March 1987
Type
Commercial building
Address
Appelby's World Travel Agents and R Smith, 21 and 23, High Street, Horncastle, LN9 5HP
OS grid reference
TF 259 695
Coordinates
53.2084, -0.11591
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This is a pair of shops with living accommodation above, dating to the late 18th century, around 1825, the late 19th century, and the 20th century. The building is constructed of brown brick with painted stucco dressings, and has a slate roof with wooden eaves and gable stacks. It is three storeys high and has a four-bay front. A central carriage archway has a segmental head. A 20th-century shop front is on the right, with a doorway to the left incorporating an overlight and glazed door, and a plate glass window to the right. To the left is an early 19th-century shop front featuring a doorway with a pilastered doorcase, an overlight, and double-panelled doors. A canted shop window is on the left, with fielded panelling below and a continuous panelled entablature. Three glazing bar sashes from around 1825 have painted wedge lintels. A late 19th-century tripartite plain sash has a painted rectangular lintel. Four glazing bar sashes above have painted wedge lintels. The west front, which is three storeys and six bays wide, faces a passage to the right. A doorway on the left has a pilastered doorcase, a traceried overlight, an entablature, and a panelled door. This doorway is flanked by single glazing bar sashes with segmental heads. To the right of this, there is a late 18th-century bow window with glazing bars and a moulded entablature. A doorway to the right has an overlight and a panelled door, followed by a tripartite glazing bar sash with a segmental head. Six glazing bar sashes are above, all with segmental heads. Four small glazing bar sashes are above them to the left, with blocked windows to the right, alongside a single glazing bar sash, all with segmental heads.

Local climate

Appelby's World Travel Agents and R Smith sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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